A study incorporating new DNA data and archaeological evidence has shown that the last Neanderthals in Europe experienced a ...

In recent years, there have been numerous studies that compare anatomically modern humans – our direct ancestors – to other ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A Neanderthal man at a human evolution exhibit at the Natural History Museum in London. There’s less Neanderthal DNA on humans’ X ...

When our species and Neanderthals interbred, it may have been mostly female Homo sapiens and male Neanderthals who mated. That’s the conclusion of a study of the genetic traces left in both ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Humans and Neanderthals cozied up from time to time when they lived in the same areas tens of thousands of years ago. But we don't know much about who got with whom, or why. A new ...

Photo: Dusan Mihailovic Entrance to Pešturina Cave in Serbia, where a Neanderthal tooth genetically analyzed in this study ...

The human genome is a rich, complex record of migration, encounters, and inheritance written over thousands of millennia. Genomic research by members of Sarah Tishkoff's lab at the University of ...

Dating out of your league? New research says it's a tale as old as time. A study out Thursday in Science argues that Neanderthal men and human women were particularly inclined to mate, a sexual habit ...

The study's findings indicate that these giant elephants were not stationary creatures. Strontium isotope analyses, which act as a "travel diary" preserved in tooth enamel, showed that some ...

Neumark-Nord in northeastern Germany was a lake landscape in the last interglacial period. It is rich in archaeological finds ...

FILE - This Friday, March 20, 2009 file photo shows reconstructions of a Neanderthal man, left, and woman at the Neanderthal museum in Mettmann, Germany. (AP Photo/Martin Meissner, File) FILE - This ...